[Hiring] Strategic Finance @Lorikeet

Role Description

We're hiring a Strategic Finance member to own the financial systems, models, and insights that guide our business. You'll work closely with our founders, operations, and go-to-market teams to turn multi-channel inputs into clean signals. That means owning forecasts, partnering on headcount planning, tracking performance against goals, and helping us understand where the business is working and where we can do better. Part strategic advisor, part hands-on operator, you'll help refine the systems that keep us informed and aligned as we scale.

As our only in-house finance team member, you'll have the opportunity to set the strategy for our strategic finance function and define how we do things—a real growth opportunity for someone who wants to drive and build something from the ground up.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in strategic finance, PE, investment banking, or early-stage operating roles, with a track record of partnering closely with leadership to drive financial clarity and decision-making, or a CFA.
• Experience building and maintaining operating models used for real-world planning ideally in a SaaS or B2B startup environment.
• Experience owning or directly contributing to board reporting, headcount planning, or annual planning cycles.
• Demonstrated experience modeling ARR, CAC, burn ratios, and other SaaS metrics that actually matter.
• Experience designing internal reporting, dashboards, or planning rituals that stuck.
• Experience working cross-functionally to pressure-test investments, run scenario analyses, or improve unit economics.

Requirements

• Gets genuinely excited about AI and can communicate its transformative potential to complex businesses.
• Is naturally curious about data and what it reveals.
• Has a builder's mindset — you get energy from creating systems, models, and processes from scratch.
• Can translate complex financial analysis into clear, actionable insights for founders, operators, and investors.
• Is motivated by impact and eager to play a key role at an early-stage, fast-moving startup.

Benefits

• A culture that's genuinely different: low ego, high trust, no tolerance for talented jerks.
• Flexibility in hours and a commitment to work-life balance.
• Real scope to shape the product and the company.
• Performance recognized in real time, not on a calendar.
• Every person at Lorikeet uses AI in their day-to-day work.
• Twice a year, the whole company flies to Hawaii for team-building.
• A recruitment process built on respect, with informal chats and a paid work trial.